Guido Puccini, the Florida man whose kidnapping last month led to his arrest as an Arizona fugitive, escaped justice for 23 years. In 1992, Puccini admitted to having sex with a young girl, molesting her repeatedly and telling her “this is what people do when they love each other,” according…
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Katherine Cooper’s live-in boyfriend of two years is a convicted sex offender under indictment for extortion in New York. After Donna Rossi, reporter for Channel 5 News, (KPHO-TV) broke the story on Monday, Cooper issued a brief statement saying she’s booted her boyfriend out and…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest. This week, we have some disappointments. Enjoy!…
The judge in the Jodi Arias penalty-phase trial tossed out a slew of defense motions on Wednesday, including those that suggested prosecutorial misconduct. That means the most popular courtroom drama in the world right now will go on, for the time being. Arias, convicted of first-degree murder in May 2013…
Phoenix police have arrested a man they believe is responsible for killing two young women more than 20 years ago. The remains of 22-year-old Angela Brosso and 17-year-old Melanie Bernas were found in and around the Arizona Canal in 1992 and 1993, and police just this week arrested 42-year-old Bryan…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest. This week, it doesn’t feel that great…
Jodi Arias accuses her prosecutor of lying and demands the immediate release of forensic reports related to her victim’s laptop in a court motion filed on Wednesday. As we reported in early November, the sordid Arias saga took another turn for the bizarre when accusations of police mishandling of evidence…
Phoenix police are still seeking clues in the murder of the 17-year-old daughter of two prominent Tempe residents. A local resident taking out trash in an alley near 18th Place and Roeser Road about 9:30 a.m. on Monday spotted what appeared to be a person sleeping and called police. Cops…
A 22-year-old Tempe man was killed on Tuesday after several men burst into his family’s home and shot him during an apparent marijuana robbery. Michael Perez was home with his wife and 3-year-old son in the 1000 block of East Manhattan Drive at about 9:20 p.m. when the assailants made…
Drunk driving is bad. That said, here’s where police will be setting up “saturation patrols” around the Valley, looking for impaired drivers on New Year’s Eve:…
Drunk driving is bad. That said, here’s where police will be setting up “saturation patrols” around the Valley, looking for impaired drivers this weekend:…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest. This week, we introduce the 50 best…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery announced today that animal cruelty charges will be dropped against the four suspects in the Green Acre dog-death case. One count of fraud remains against Jesse and Maleisa Hughes, owners of the Gilbert boarding facility where at least 23 dogs died overnight in June, Montgomery’s…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest. This week, we read the inmates’ faces…
A serial Walmart shoplifter was caught this week, and he turned out to be a corrections officer, according to authorities. Hugo Rivera, 34, shoplifted from Walmart stores at least five times, according to the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office, and had already been banned from entering any Walmart store when he…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest. This week, we take a walk on…
A viral video of alleged police brutality by a Mesa police officer doesn’t show the entire encounter between the officer and a teenage girl. The video, which has been shared on Facebook more than 120,000 times at the time of this post, appears to show the officer throwing a blow…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest. This week, most of our inmates have…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest. This week, we found the jail’s most…
Thomas “Pregnant Man” Beatie has been arrested in Phoenix on suspicion of stalking his estranged wife with a GPS tracker. Beatie, a woman who underwent a sex change in 1997, became famous a few years ago because of eyebrow-raising pictures of a pregnant body beneath a bearded, male-looking face. “He”…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest. This week, we found some inmates you’ll…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest. This week, we’re certain our inmates have…
